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"Did you stick to your story?" asked his cellmate. "Of course," said he. "Well, if it is true," remarked the other, "there'll be something doing soon." And there was. About an hour later the sergeant came again and entered. He drew the two men into a corner. "See here, young fellow," he said to Samuel in a low voice. "Have you got anything against young Lockman?" "No," replied Samuel. "Why?"
In Russia all nursing was considered to be a vocation and as such could therefore not be paid. All sisters received their maintenance and clothing from the community but no pay. St. Petersburg 1906. "I have just received your letter telling me of Trenar's death." Lockman wrote me some time ago that he was very sick with distemper but had not written me since. Useless to say how I feel.
For nearly a year old Harry Lockman "You've heard of him, no doubt he built up the great glass works at Lockmanville?" said Manning. No, Adam confessed that he had never heard of Lockman, that shrewd and crafty old multi-millionaire who had gone on a still hunt for glass-bottle factories, and now had the country in the grip of the fourteen-million-dollar "Glass Bottle Securities Company."
One instance I recollect of a foreign publication, in which mention is made of l'illustre Lockman ." 'Of Sir Joshua Reynolds, he said, "Sir, I know no man who has passed through life with more observation than Reynolds." 'He repeated to Mr. 'He thus defined the difference between physical and moral truth; "Physical truth, is, when you tell a thing as it actually is.
"You should read the papers. That kid's been cutting didoes in the Tenderloin for a couple of years. He wasn't worth the risking of your little finger to say nothing of your life." "It seems terrible," said Samuel dismayed. "The trouble with you, Sammy," commented the other, "is that you're too good to live. That's all there is to your unfitness. You take old Lockman, for instance.
"I think I'd better go now," he said. "All right," said young Lockman. "Will you come to-morrow morning, and we'll fix things up?" "I'll come," said Samuel. "What are you going to do with him?" asked the girl. "He likes to take care of horses," said Lockman. "No," exclaimed the other promptly, "that won't do." "Why not?" asked he. "Because, Bertie, you don't want to make a stable boy out of him.
"Why, sir, he told me about the survival of the fittest, and how I had to starve to death because I was one of the failures. And then you see, sir, I met Master Albert " "Master Albert?" "Albert Lockman, sir. And the professor had said that he was one of the fit; and I saw that he got drunk, sir, and did other things that were very wicked, and so it did not seem just right that I should starve.
It was thoughts like this that were driving Samuel he had Bertie Lockman's taunts ringing in his ears, and for the life of him he could not see why he should vacate the earth in favor of Bertie Lockman! So breakfast time passed, and dinner time passed, and supper time came.
He has too many possibilities. For one thing, he's good looking." Samuel flushed scarlet and dropped his eyes. He felt again that penetrating gaze. "All right," said Lockman. "What can you suggest?" "I don't know, I'm sure. But something decent." "He doesn't know enough to be a house servant, Glad " "No but something outside. Couldn't he learn gardening? Are you fond of flowers, Samuel?"
Without counting the stable hands, and the employees of the different farms, it took no less than twenty-three people to minister to the personal wants of Bertie Lockman. And they were divided into ranks and classes, with a rigid code of etiquette, upon which they insisted with vehemence.
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